Announcements (100)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Thu, 19 Jan 89 21:36:33 EST


Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 512. Thursday, 19 Jan 1989.


(1) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 09:02:00 EST (43 lines)
From: Richard Pierce <pierce@rose.uib.uninett>
Subject: Macintosh Program

(2) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 09:43 EST (9 lines)
From: "J. S. Reed" <UNCJSR@UNC.BITNET>
Subject: Column by Dave Barry

(3) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 16:25:30 EST (23 lines)
From: Dana Paramskas <LNGDANAP@UOGUELPH>
Subject: Conference announcement

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 09:02:00 EST
From: Richard Pierce <pierce@rose.uib.uninett>
Subject: Macintosh Program

Below follows some information on a useful Macintosh program which I
have been using for half a year or so to convert and clean up files. It is
simple to use, fast, reliable, and effective. For example, I entered rules
into Paradigm to convert TLG files into SuperGreek and then dumped
them into a HyperCard stack for further manipulation. What follows is the
author's description (which corresponds to my experience):


Paradigma 1.0 is a fast and flexible file converter for the Macintosh.
You can specify up to ten ascii characters to be replaced with any other
ten characters, e g
abc ---> dfg
The program can process a file with a set (a 'paradigm') of up to 100 such
rules, depending on memory capacity. Paradigms are stored and edited
within the program, and selected from a menu when you want to use them
again.
The speed is about 150k/min on a Mac+, independent of the # of
rules.
Ascii codes can be specified in square brackets (e g [10] (=
linefeed)).
Unfortunately, no wildcards, due to algorithm

Applications:
Changing codes in a formated text file
(e g Microsoft rtf-format)
Transforming TLG-files to supergreek-compatible text
Converting between Mac and IBM ascii
Removing linefeeds
Cleaning up mailing list files before printing them (by
removing return chars unless they represent end of paragraph
(ie are preceded by a "."

Paradigma is in the public domain, and available on request from

Espen Aarseth
Computer section for the humanities
University of Bergen, Norway
Bitnet: HDBFS@NOBERGEN

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 09:43 EST
From: "J. S. Reed" <UNCJSR@UNC.BITNET>
Subject: Column by Dave Barry

Humorist Dave Barry recently produced a column called
"Ask Mr. Language Person" which some HUMANISTs might
find amusing (and others offensive). Anyone who'd like
a copy, just ask: uncjsr@unc.bitnet. Glad to oblige.
John Reed, U. of North Carolina
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 16:25:30 EST
From: Dana Paramskas <LNGDANAP@UOGUELPH>
Subject: Conference announcement

C O N F E R E N C E A N N O U N C E M E N T
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The First Conference on Canadian Computer-Assisted Language Learning
(CCALL89) will be held consecutively at the University of Guelph
and York University, April 27-29, 1989. Keynote speakers: Glyn
Holmes, John Higgins and J.S. Noblitt. Over 40 researchers from
universities and colleges across Canada, representing most of the
current projects in the field, will present papers and demonstrations
covering the following range of topics: vocabulary, writing,
reading comprehension, grammar reinforcement and pronunciation programs;
parsers/expert systems; videodiscs; hypermedia; CALL research;
overviews of CALL; how to set up CALL labs; and introducing CALL
into the curriculum. Fee: $60 before February 28 and $75 after.
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For further information and registration forms, contact
LNGDANAP@UOGUELPH or write Cheryl Dickie, c/o Computer-Assisted
Writing Centre, 530 Scott Library, York University, 4700 Keele
Street, North York, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3